just so yall know

i made it to morocco!
this keyboard is out of control.
i wish i spoke moroccain arabic, or french.
this place is incredible.
i will write when i get back.


love

le vacanze primaverili

i know i know,
i have been meaning to post for days now. things got crazier with midterms, and travel planning... you know, like when you find yourself in that moment when you have a pile of laundry to do, your underwear supply is getting low, you have a list of emails to respond to, numerous canvases and drawings that seem to be more in your way more than anything else and so on? so i haven't gotten around to the whole post thing... or emailing you any of yall... but anyway, what it comes down to is that i will make a big juicy post with pictures and words and stuff when i get back from spring break.
i leave early early sunday morning - so more like late late saturday night - for Marrakesh and will get back on the 4th in the afternoon.

until then,
much love and peace

head shoulders knees and toes

ok. first of all. some cool contemporary art in Rome.
the whole contemporary art world here is.. well... a long long talk. so, some other time for that.
but, for now, i leave you with these. i liked these two a lot.




also, go read giulio's blog about the whole horse thing.




time here has been going by a little too fast, and i have been really caught up in this... this... well, i don't know what to even call it. really, just a huge big equation but istead of numbers, every symbol is like... a question, or a word, or a theory or an idea. anyway, it has been crazy. i have been learning a lot. and thinking/learning proves that you are living right? so good. let's leave it at that.

these buggers..... i think i need to not look at these feet/legs for about a week. we'll see what happens. but i think we need some serious time apart. i need a plan of attack... or something....









and i've been picking at that itch too.


and i actually have done a little more to this, but didn't get a picture yet. i'll take one tomorrow. but who knows when it will make it to the internet.

and finally. for gianna.
i've been smudging up my studio wall a bit, and these two made me thing of those character-design projects, where you look at a blob - or whatever - and pull some character from it.
so anyway, my gift to you. if you want them. or just, whatever.



and with that, i'm out for the night
peace

that whole train thing again

i find that sometimes working on anything feels like a train slowly getting it's gears moving, but only speeding up at moments only to slow down again. there is that big gearing up feeling, and then a slow weightless wait until - boom. you lock down for that moment and are moving and then there is the climb back to the beginning where you wait to do it all over again.
hope that doesn't sound depressing. cause it isn't. it just is that way sometimes.
but anyway.
here.

so we had some floor.ground changes to do... and still need to really figure out how that is gonna go. expect the floor under my feet to be doing some major shifts in the coming days.

and yeah, so this went down. started getting my little toesies in. but that color loks even more.... um.... scary, on here. whatever. we'll see where those liitle piggies go as well.


and this is that other painting i am trying to beat into some kind of presentable shape.
and a little bit of forward movement (supposedly) here as well.



studio window. pretty day


peace yall

learning to look in mirrors

painting is finally a little bit underway. it was a hard start, but after a couple hard days, and a couple great conversations, i have started doing a number of self exploration paintings. as of now i only have three going. but we will see what happens. i know this is not very explanitory, but it is a long long story.
keep in mind, none of these are near finished. they have all only just begun.
these are first layers here.
first color.

changed the background color....

first this guy... girl.. woman. me.

oh yeah. i went to this one show. i thought mom would like the leaves. this guy did some beautiful work.


and i love this. love it.



more later

it has begun

i will be living in that space for the next 3 months or so. alternating only at times for carlos's house and my and xiomara's apartment.

don't judge me, it is the first drawing i've done in a while... ok? ok.

some knees.. the woman's pose, well, i wasn't diggin it from my point of view, but i liked the knees. so i did the knees.


ok. more later.

gettin into some thangs

after all the rain, i find myself at the apartment, listening to npr. it will always make a place feel like home. (thanks mom and dad... note that that is sarcastic but also a real thanks... yeah) they are talking about online polls about who you should vote for and everyone is saying that they got dennis kucinich. so, i just don't know... what's the problem. let's get him in office, no?

well anyway.
i know i've been slacking with the blog here, sorry. getting things going has been a little busy and rather bumpy. but it seems that as of now, we've got things moving. i've already got a list of things to do. the classes all seem like they're going to be rewarding. i am going to start tutoring this kid in english tomorrow. and may this other kid next week. so thats ok... and yeah, so there you go. the galleries and studios class (which is a group of kids going around and visit the secret world of contemporary art that lives in the back alleys of rome) has made me a little... well, i don't know the word... but it seems that rome is kind of doing this this with contemporary art that goes like so:
- find and set up show of "new" "in" art
- call collectors, museums, rich/known people and ask them to come see
- hope they buy some
- rinse
- repeate

it made me a little sick. basically, if you don't know about these places, they are lost to you. and "you" includes a whole lot of people. i don't know, i guess i cling to the hope that making art is about more than money... but i guess people gotta make a living.. or something..
anyway.


some love from home.

ruth, is this the one you wanted?
more to come in a bit,
i think my pasta is ready